#runners-up

[inventors-fair]

Hues If True - Monochrome is Where the Heart is Runners-Up

Break out your rose-tinted shades and bask in the glorious redness of our runners-up this week: @bread-into-toast, @grornt, @stupidstupidratcreatures!

Cobble Up - @bread-into-toast

I appreciate all the restraint that went into this card’s design. Four mana sorcery that only hits permanents feels like a very nice place for a limited removal spell, and the Jump-start is just icing on the cake. I also adore how it cares about lands in graveyard, given how well it synergises with the ability printed on the card as well as the gamut of abilities printed on other separate land-pitching and sacrificing red cards. The templating is certainly nonstandard but you did justify it in your submission text so I’m absolutely willing to let that decision slide. Honestly, doing it this way makes far more sense to me than listing out every damageable permanent type, so good call there.

Retrofitted Anole - @grornt

Oh what a delightful lizard friend. I appreciate the decision to make this a colorless creature at face value, because in my experience, drafting monocolor decks kind of requires the inclusion of some number of artifact friends to make the deck function. That you can run this (albeit less effectively) in any color of deck is all upside in my opinion, and the use of a very mana-dense monstrosity cost greatly helps in nudging the drafter into The Right Color. I also love the use of monstrosity as a method of conveying these small lizards’ tendency to puff out their neck pouch, presumably to seem more intimidating. If I have one concern with this card, it is that the monster cost feels like just a smidge too much value? It definitely looks borderline, and I definitely think I’d need to play with or against the card before decrying it as obscenely overpowered or anything, so I think you’re doing just fine there regardless of my paranoia. Overall, great lizard, would run in all my green (and possibly even non-green) limited decks.

Illlulia of Nighthearth - @stupidstupidratcreatures

While I realize that this is specifically a monocolored payoff contest, and this is the only entry submitted this week that uses the word ‘multicolor’ in its rules text, it still succeeds in not only encouraging one to play a single color, but dares to go even more specific in requesting that the player to build a deck entirely out of hybrid spells, which is far too fascinating a prospect for me to place it anywhere other than the top six, I feel. You’ve succeeded in suggesting an absolutely fascinating environment here and I absolutely must commend you for that. That said, I do feel like the first clause is more than likely a smidge too powerful for a standard environment (getting to untap with this and then just five Literally Anything is Kind Of A Lot), and I do think the monocolor and multicolor bits would benefit from being separate triggers, if only for clarity’s sake, but regardless, as soon as I read this card I knew I had to give it some kind of recognition.

#mtg #magic the gathering #inventor's fair #custom magic card #runners-up #commentary #monocolor payoff contest

[merlin-knights]

Winner of the "favorite season of Merlin" poll:

1 vote difference. Poll link.

#BBC merlin #merlin poll results #my poll results #favorite season #favourite series #winners #runners-up #season 4 #series 4 #season 1 #series 1 #1 vote difference

[jingle-jangle-spurs]

Robert House watching The Courier rip all the copper wiring out the walls of the Lucky 38

#omw to sell it as scrap at Mick and Ralph’s #or for the gun runners maybe #oc: wesson-smith kelly #he’s awful he’s the worst he’s my little pookie bear #no time to listen to your plans or views on social economics #need money to loose at the slot machines #you bet the wrong horse in this race #no main quest side tasks only #I am in your walls stealing your loft insulation #do not talk to me #crime time 😎 #all bundled up in the backseat of The Highwayman #the custom license place says $CAM1IN #fallout new vegas #fallout #courier six #courier 6 #Robert house #fallout memes #fallout nv memes #fallout nv #so many tags #babygirl why are we talking about philosophy #no helgian dialects here I’m about to send ghoulies to the moon #exploding house with my mind #my courier is the worst I love him I hate him I would not let him in my house #fallout new vegas memes

[kyasunn]

❗❗ NOT LAST, BABY...! ❗❗

Assorted session 6's drawn to the tune of chaos unfurling.

#solidaritygaming #pearlescentmoon #pearlesentmoon fanart #trafficblr #traffic smp spoilers #secret life #goodtimeswithscar #the canary curse was fading so of course the universe had to course correct and give him runner-up... #ky-posts-drawing #jimmy solidarity #poor lizzie... T_T #1k

[trashdorito]

I swear they better not mess this up

#the legend of zelda #nintendo switch #zelda movie #nintendo #live action zelda #its criminal I didn't find out through the meme so i hope yall do #this series is my baby sony better not fuck this up #the director is the same as the maze runner trilogy and its under Sony #so i have high expectations #and medium hopes

[calciopics]

France receive grand welcome in Paris

#FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 #runners-up #France NT #Equipe de France #football #fussball #fußball #foot #fodbod #futbol #futebol #soccer #calcio

[jinbeshawaiianshirt]

day 3: fav outfit the OPR fit goes so hard 🛐

#runner up is his orange kimono with the black and white diamonds #or the skull kimono it's so cute #AND of course hawaiian shirts kdlfkld #jinbeweek2024 #jinbeweek #one piece #jinbe #my art

[spicymancer]

OC DNA for Monster Researcher Eclair! Her original characterization was a lot more subdued and demure. Nagato Yuki-esque. Eventually she sort of ended up being much more proactive and earnest. Anyway you can find the original template here!

#monster researcher eclair #oc art #OC_DNA #I know she has the same hair silhouette and colors as Pidge Voltron #It was supposed to be like what if Daisy had short hair #Gardenias hair continues to be one of life's great mysteries #Shout out to runners up Arezu Pokemon and Fio Metal Slug #how many tags can i add #wow crazy

[chaemins]

LOVELY RUNNER 선재 업고 튀어 (2024) Ep. 1-2

#lovely runner #kdrama #userdramas #kim hye yoon #byeon woo seok #kdramaedit #kdramadaily #dailyasiandramas #dramasource #*m #me anytime there are gorgeous hand shots: IM UP!

[inventors-fair]

Upon Further Reflection - A Dark and Stormy Knight Runners-up

May your applause fall in torrents-except at occasional intervals, where it is checked by a violent gust of wind which has swept up our runners this week (for they are @batatafilosofal, @deg99, and @hypexion!)

Guardian of Peace // Instigator of Chaos - @batatafilosofal I love where you're coming from with these, and I adore the flavor of this apparent hypothetical Ravnica-type situation. That said, part of me wishes the cast triggers were swapped? Hear me out here: While the Guardian of Peace detaining things very much makes flavor sense, practically speaking I don't think you'd ever really need to temporarily Arrest anything when you can just fly over any blockers and throw five toughness in front of any attackers. Whereas the Instigator would love nothing more than to make sure that This Thing Can't Block Right Now. Certainly, goad can tap things down, and 4/3 isn't terrible stats for blocking, but that all requires waiting at least a turn and the word 'haste' here really screams to me that this would much prefer to be attacking Right Now, Actually. And the 2/5 I am sure would adore being able to aggravate small things into attacking into its giant durable body more than anything. To be clear, I don't think you made any wrong decisions by placing the abilities where you did, I just find it interesting that they would most likely synergise better with the opposing trigger. The cards work plenty fine as-is, but that piqued my interest. Finally, I do have some very tiny concerns about being able to detain things at instant speed for the low low price of casting one blue spell. It's proooooobably fine when attached to a four mana double-white uncommon? I've definitely done more heinous things with a set of Snare Tacticians, and that card is probably a bit easier to trigger than this one is, so you're probably safe, but still. Regardless, lovely set of cards this week, these two definitely gave me a lot to think about.

Mist Sentry // Miststrider - @deg99 As much as I have previously expressed a distaste for Skulk, it works well enough here that I'm willing to look past my seven-year-long resentment of the mechanic in order to appreciate what you're doing here. I love that you've managed to construct something simple enough to fit in the common rarity, and I absolutely adore that you've invoked a lesser known property of the White Knight/Black Knight relationship, which is that both parties are fully confident that they could easily beat their rival in combat, but can never actually prove this because they can never actually fight each other, so in spite of the shared vigilance all they can ever do is stare at each other from a socially acceptable distance, thinking, "Oh I could so totally beat that guy." Absolutely immaculate, I love them both dearly, excellent work.

Zessar en-Phyrexia // Sterrick il-Markov - @hypexion Okay, this one is real clever. This is the kind of mirrored pair that probably doesn't look like a mirrored pair to the untrained eye, but when placed side-by-side they very cleanly demonstrate the two sides of the war that defines March of the Machines. Despite pretty much every word on these cards being different, they still manage to mirror each other in a way that I legitimately find impressive in the context of the set they are intended to be present in. I also kind of love the use of the old Kor prefixes here, as a callback, even if it does feel a little weird to not use them on any actual Kor. Good stuff here.

#mtg #magic the gathering #inventor's fair #custom magic card #commentary #runners-up #Mirrored Pair Contest

[merlin-knights]

Winner of the "more screentime post-magic discovery" poll:

Poll link.

#BBC merlin #merlin spoilers #merlin poll results #my poll results #more screentime post-magic discovery #winners #runners-up #Arthur #Lancelot #poll statistics #Arthur got more than double Lancelot's votes #as it should be

[esper-eclipse]

WHAT!!! BEST BOY AWARDS GO TO!

#congrats guys #i love them so dearly #TERUMOB SWEEP #and congrats mob psycho for runner up anime of the season #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #shigeo kageyama #hanazawa teruki #terumob #espclpse

[alexandrathegreat5700]

guys remember when dean told cas that he loved him back in the awesome spn finale where everyone lived happily ever after and no one went to super hell???

yeah, me fucking neither.

#im still pissed #i wake up at night with a homicidal rage for the show runners #this is how i cope #spn #dean x castiel #destiel #dean winchester #castiel #alex yaps

[barbru]

"What am I gonna do with you, Adamfield?"

#the runner-up quote option was 'I hate herpes' from Adam #listen his pudgy birdy poses gave me this very specific picture in my mind that I had to recreate #adam hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel adam #hazbin hotel sera #garfield #hazbin hotel #hellaverse #fanart #digital art #barbru #2024

[dozydawn]

WIM Arianne Caoili (1986-2020)

#made myself so sad reading about her. she died in a car wreck at 33... she was married to armenian grandmaster levon aronian. #she was runner up on australian dancing with the stars... #her husband moved on with a younger woman after only 5 months which really upset me. when i shouldn’t be surprised at that stuff #patton oswalt too i just... nvm let me be quiet & keep chess posting #chess #arianne caoili #1k

[hes-a-plant]

K yall im tired and in pain and also curious.

Pick one. Yes, just one, I know it’s hard.

#chronic pain #disability #disabled #actually disabled #cpunk #chronic illness #chronicpain #joint pain #joints #body be mean #ow #currently my vote is very firmly going to wrists #the little bastards #although fingers and spine are close runners up